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architecture and design magazineFri, 09 Dec 2016 14:43:53 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1Marie Hesseldahl's Snap lamp clamps onto flat surfaceshttps://www.dezeen.com/2015/12/28/marie-hesseldahl-snap-lamp-clip-clamp-flat-surfaces-lighting/
https://www.dezeen.com/2015/12/28/marie-hesseldahl-snap-lamp-clip-clamp-flat-surfaces-lighting/#commentsMon, 28 Dec 2015 06:00:37 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=818731Danish product designer Marie Hesseldahl has created a lamp with a built-in clamp that allows it to be attached to other furniture pieces. The Snap light features a circular shade that rests on a two-pronged hinge. When squeezed together, the clamp opens and allows the light to be clipped to bookshelves or other objects. "The

]]>Danish product designer Marie Hesseldahl has created a lamp with a built-in clamp that allows it to be attached to other furniture pieces.

The Snap light features a circular shade that rests on a two-pronged hinge. When squeezed together, the clamp opens and allows the light to be clipped to bookshelves or other objects.

"The installation of lighting is often the last thing you do when you set up your interior," said Hesseldahl, who created the light while studying industrial design at Design School Kolding in Denmark.

"I intended to create a lamp which, like furniture and other interior elements, can easily be moved around to change the setting, the mood or the environment if wanted."

The lamp is made from a wood fibre and plastic composite, with steel. This allowed the clamp section of the light to be moulded as a single piece.

Hesseldahl was also able to incorporate the wiring into the form of the light so it extends unobtrusively out of the back of the clamp.

According to the designer, the Snap lamp can fit onto any surface that's eight to 40 millimetres thick. It includes a rotating shade that can be used to direct the light wherever needed most. A dimmer function also allows its intensity to be adjusted.

"Since many other clamp lamps have an industrial, technical and in some sense more 'cold' appearance, I aimed to create a character that was more human friendly, and thereby hopefully a shape that could be found intuitively attractive and appealing," said Hesseldahl.

"As a result of various form experiments, Snap got some (in my opinion) almost human references like the shoulders, the head, neck as well as two hind legs."

The design is currently still at prototype stage, although Hesseldahl said she is hoping to put it into production in the future.

]]>https://www.dezeen.com/2015/12/28/marie-hesseldahl-snap-lamp-clip-clamp-flat-surfaces-lighting/feed/5Snap clip-on supports create furniture from found objectshttps://www.dezeen.com/2015/05/27/snap-clip-on-leg-module-furniture-mari-roca-erika-biarnes/
https://www.dezeen.com/2015/05/27/snap-clip-on-leg-module-furniture-mari-roca-erika-biarnes/#commentsWed, 27 May 2015 09:53:09 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=708438A pair of Spanish designers have developed a method to turn almost any flat surface into a piece of furniture using a removable leg module (+ slideshow). Snap was designed by Maria Roca and Erika Biarnes, who met while studying architecture at the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya in Barcelona. Now

Now based in Barcelona and San Francisco, the pair came up with the idea for a modular attachment that could be used to create bespoke furniture and adapt found objects with no drilling or gluing, after travelling for a number of years.

"We lived separately in different countries for a while," the pair told Dezeen. "During our travels, we had both experienced frustration about the rigidity of furniture, which didn't adapt to changes in our lifestyle."

"We started to think about the possibility of having a leg that can be put on and taken off easily. We began designing with a deck of cards, clips and a coat hanger; eventually we came up with our first prototype."

The final product consists of an epoxy paint-covered steel loop, which bends over at the top to form a flat point.

This top section acts as a clamp, with one side of the leg creating a rigid top and the other becoming a flexible section that can be bent back to create an opening. This springs shut to secure the flat object between the two parts.

"The clamping system was what took the longest to design," said the designers. "We invested a lot of time in developing it because Snap must be easy to put on and take off, as well as be aesthetic and stable at the same time."

"It's way easier to do it than to explain it. Within seconds everything is set up."

The clamp is held in place using a PVC-coated cable that attaches to one of the upright supports of the leg's structure through a hole.

Four of the legs used together can withstand up to 98 kilograms in weight, depending on whether the board they're attached to is also strong enough.

"The key for its stability is the solution found on the clamping system, combining the flexible metallic piece with the cable," explained the designers. "Although at the end, the secret ingredient is the cable. A well-tightened cable is what gives the strength to Snap – and obviously the metallic part must be rigid as well."

The clamp can accommodate surfaces from one to four centimetres thick and almost any shape.

"Snap is designed to fit all shapes and sizes of board: triangular, rectangular or irregular boards," they added. "They can be attached in corners, on the sides in a disorderly way, or just the way that best fits your place."

"Who said that tables had to have four legs, for instance? Your furniture can have as many legs as you need or wish. And when you get tired of them, just change their position or just take them off."

The duo have founded their own company, called Be-elastic, to produce the design and are now fundraising for their first production run on Kickstarter.

]]>https://www.dezeen.com/2015/05/27/snap-clip-on-leg-module-furniture-mari-roca-erika-biarnes/feed/5Clamped Stools by Daniel Glazmanhttps://www.dezeen.com/2011/07/20/clamped-stools-by-daniel-glazman/
https://www.dezeen.com/2011/07/20/clamped-stools-by-daniel-glazman/#commentsWed, 20 Jul 2011 11:01:51 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/?p=140370Furniture designers' obsession with clamps has taken a new turn with this stool held together with one of the woodworking tools. The legs of the Clamped Stools by Daniel Glazman are held against the seat underside by a single clamp integrated in the third leg. Glazman designed the stool while studying at the Bezalel Academy

My name is Daniel Glazman. I am a young industrial designer recently graduated from the Bezalel arts and design academy in Jerusalem.

The 'Clamped Stool' is a three leg knock-down stool, assembled with a single clamp based joint, integrated with one of the stools legs that locks the whole construction together, giving it its strength.

The concept of the 'Clamped Stool' was born after I looked at some DIY furniture and thought to myself that they are not so simple to assemble and there is more desperation than satisfaction from the process of the assembly.

I decided to design a knock down stool that the whole construction will be held on a single joint, familiar from the field of hardware tools and this way will be easy and intuitive to assemble and fun and satisfying at the same time.

In a process which included six models, the familiar clamp had integrated with one of the legs, resulting with a stable, contemporary designed stool.

]]>https://www.dezeen.com/2011/07/20/clamped-stools-by-daniel-glazman/feed/7Chairs by Guido Garottihttps://www.dezeen.com/2010/06/30/chairs-by-guido-garotti/
https://www.dezeen.com/2010/06/30/chairs-by-guido-garotti/#commentsWed, 30 Jun 2010 10:48:16 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/?p=85018Sheffield Institute of Arts graduate Guido Garotti will present a series of chairs at New Designers in London next week. Garotti selected materials for each component based on the effect they could have on the user's memory. For example, oak was used to age gradually, while the nap of suede shows where it has recently

Garotti selected materials for each component based on the effect they could have on the user's memory.

For example, oak was used to age gradually, while the nap of suede shows where it has recently been touched.

The project will be on show at New Designers 8-10 July.

Here's a further explanation from Garotti:

"Possessions that stayed with us for decades could be understood as mirroring our own experience of time passing". Deyan Sudjic

Long-term relationships with the objects we possess stimulate our affective life, offering a closer psychic symbiosis between person and object. However, today’s throwaway culture denies artefacts the opportunity to become meaningful partners in the adventure of our life and be part of our history.

My aim is to create objects that have the ability to stimulate - through their use - the desire to be kept. This set of chairs is designed along the principles that I found to be valid arguments for emotional durability.

Each chair differs from the others featuring a dedicated universe of subtle details that aims to establish a privileged long-term relationship with its user. Four different chairs were designed, however, at this moment, two of them have been engineered and realized.

Materials will age gracefully mirroring the user’s existence. Oak will age beautifully offering the chance to be loved and cherished with dedicated aftercare. Suede’s brilliant short term memory system stimulates ownership and a sense of belonging by displaying traces of the user’s presence.

The joining system offers room for interaction. By placing the clamps in different designated spots the user can modify the general give of the chair. This mindful intervention - as a form of customisation - consolidates the bond between user and object through emotional investment.

Many informative details encourage a privileged partnership. Through a certain degree of access into the chair’s existence, the thoughtful user will develop a feeling of higher understanding of it; as a result, the boundaries between user and object weaken.

A mysterious attitude confers a durable appeal. Many features exhibit a mysterious attitude: strong elements of continuity with something unknown, not visible, or simply not there. The user is part of an inspiring narrative and will complete the project with the uniqueness of his mind.

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]]>https://www.dezeen.com/2010/06/30/chairs-by-guido-garotti/feed/13Minimal Work Station by Fredrik Paulsenhttps://www.dezeen.com/2010/06/29/minimal-work-station-by-fredrik-paulsen/
https://www.dezeen.com/2010/06/29/minimal-work-station-by-fredrik-paulsen/#commentsTue, 29 Jun 2010 11:53:15 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/?p=84991Product design graduate Fredrik Paulsen presents this tiny table for working from home at the Royal College of Art in London this week. Called Minimal Work Station, the table has enough space for a laptop and one book, plus pockets and containers that clip onto the sides for papers and stationary. The aim is to

Product design graduate Fredrik Paulsen presents this tiny table for working from home at the Royal College of Art in London this week.

Called Minimal Work Station, the table has enough space for a laptop and one book, plus pockets and containers that clip onto the sides for papers and stationary.

The aim is to prevent piles of paper building up on the desk, meaning the workspace can be moved around the home throughout the day.

Show Two continues at the Royal College of Art in London until 4 July.

Here's some more information from Paulsen:

Minimal Work Station

In the recent years working from home has become an attractive and affordable alternative for people working within small-scale structures and with manageable needs of infrastructure and space. But to arrange life and work in the same space often don't make the ideal conditions for daily routine (e.g. messy dinner tables).

To respond to these new requirements my aim was to limit and organise work space and to design a nomadic worktable that only fits the most immanent tools. The size of the tabletop is defined to give enough room for a laptop and a reading book. These restrictions anticipate the possibility of accumulating piles of paper on your desk.

To accommodate the various utensils and documents the Minimal Work-station includes a set of containers that can carry for example pens, A4 sheets or power adapters. These containers can be hung to the edge of the tabletop. In addition to this, an attachable lamp will provide illumination.To allow further flexibility, the Minimal work-station is designed to be easily moved around in the house, according to the different day-time situations. It might be close to the garden during the day and then close to the kid's room later in the evening. Like this working from home can become better organised, while the general daily routines and the separation of life and work gain flexibility.